Growing Rich

Selling one''s soul to the devil takes on new meaning in this fiendishly clever page-turner by Fay Weldon. Once upon a time, in the dullest town imaginable, there lived three girls: Laura, the pretty one; Annie, the one desperate to escape; and Carmen, the one who catches the devil''s eye.

Now in her ninth decade, Fay Weldon is one of the foremost chroniclers of our time, a novelist who spoke to a...